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A67100 A discourse of miracles wrought in the Roman Catholick Church, or, A full refutation of Dr. Stillingfleets unjust exceptions against miracles together with a large discovery of the Doctors unexcusable frauds, manifest in his many false, perverted, and impertinent quotations / by E.W. E. W. (Edward Worsley), 1605-1676. 1676 (1676) Wing W3614; ESTC R16804 246,745 416

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assert the latter to be as they are manifest Truths 8. To lay yet more open the Dr's fraud I Argue thus If the learned Tostatus plainly acknowledges true supernatural Miracles wrought in the Church after the Apostles time different from those which he saith ceased The Dr grosly abuses this Author But Tostatus most evidently own 's such true Miracles in the Church Therefore Mr Dr grosly abuses Tostatus For proof of my Assertion turn once more to this Author where he expresly teaches 1. That Tostat in c. 10. Mart. Quest 12. John 14. Christ impowred all that believe in him to work Miracles yea and greater than He wrought He teaches 2. That both Martyrs and Confessors long after our Saviours death preaching up and down the world Multa Miracula fecerunt did many Miracles though Christ spake not to them nor Specially gave them the Power wherewith the Apostles were priviledged He saies Tostatus plainly grants true Miracles 3. That all believing in Christ by invoking the Holy name of JESUS may work Miracles with much more that followes Tell me Reader is it not prodigiously strange that the Dr remit's us to this Question while he Wilily slips over all here noted point blank against him Is not Dr Still page 611. this Fraud and worse than jugling manifestly perceptible when upon this Principle Some Miracles have ceased he would conclude there are none at all wrought 9. If you Ask what it was that beguiled the Dr in à right understanding of Tostatus Thus it is Tostatus in the beginning of the Question now cited demand's why our Preachers in the Church who suceed the Apostles do not such Miracles now Talia Miracula Viz. By ordinary Commission as the Apostles did He Answer 's most profoundly that ordinary Power was readily given the Apostles to work Miracles every where in confirmation of Christ's Doctrin so it is said They went forth and preached in all places ubique Deo concurrente God Cooperating with Signs that followed Now saith Tostatus that ordinary Power was not only annexed to those first Apostolical men but also to the newly converted and baptized For these after their Baptism and conversion were impowred to work Miracles whereby the Truth and Holiness The Dr's Cheat discovered of Christ's Doctrin received much light And this Ordinary certain Power of working Miracles every where ceases in the Prelates of the Church Whence our Dr would inferr à cessation of all Miracles which as I said is worse than jugling and most opposite to the express Doctrin of Tostatus O but the Bishop saith Tostatus cited à §. Tertio fit this Power of working Miracles would not be profitable in the Church but rather serve for curiosity Very true For if as he observes Miracles were dayly wrought amongst us by the Prelates of the Church and new Convertits the merit of Faith would be much lessened and Therefore Tostatus §. secundo saies first it is unworthily done by à true faithful Believer to seek after Miracles to confirm the Faith which he actually believes as certain For this were to require à further probation of that which he hold's most undoubted 2. Though Miracles are not necessary when faith is preached to Believers yet they are profitable when it s preached Tostatus cited §. autem to Infidels or Hereticks Thus Tostatus 10. One may yet object The Doctrin of Christ of the Apostles and the Church is one and the same if therefore no Believer ought curiously to desire new Miracles to confirm the Doctrin of Christ and the Apostles why should they require new Miracles to confirm Church Doctrin Or to what End hath God wrought Miracles in every Age I Answer first No Catholick Believer ought to ask for more Miracles than Divine Providence hath already manifested because the Truth of Church Doctrin by what is done is made Evidently Credible notwithstanding God out of his abundant mercy may at his good pleasure illustrate this Oracle with new Miracles as we have proved above The Utility Miracles wrought in the Church much abate the Impudence of Hereticks whereof gathered from Tostatus last cited avail's much to convince Hereticks that impudently calumniate the Church Saying She hath changed the Doctrin of Christ and his Apostles God therefore to represse this Impudence as he made the Doctrin of Christ Evidently Credible by the Miracles which our Saviour wrought the Doctrin of the Apostles Evidently Credible by the Miracles They did so also he set's forth the glory of his own Oracle the Church and makes her Doctrin evidently credible by innumerable Miracles wrought Age after Age. And this I conceive to be à main reason why Providence will have Miracles continued in the Church to the worlds End 11. The Dr once more referr's us to Tostatus Tostatus in cap. 3. Matt 9. 10. where we are told that those visible exteriour Signs of the Holy Ghost descending upon the baptized in the forme of a Dove or Fire shewed in the Primitive Church cease now in such as receive baptism Though saith the Bishop Original and actual sins are as well taken away by that Sacrament in this present Age and Grace as well given to the baptized now as it was in the Baptism of the Primitive Christians Here is all the Dr has for his Purpose and it is Dr Still page 612. à very Cheat though he bragg as if he had done Wonders What saith he shall we say to the Testimony of this learned Bishop Had he never heard of S. Iames of Compostella and the Miracles pretended to be wrought there And could he believe them and write these things Had he never heard of Vincentius Ferrerius c. Mr Dr you still juggle still run on in your old mistake and Distinguish not between one sort of Miracles and others The Miracles wrought at Compostella and by S. Vincentius are quit different from the visible appearance of the Holy Ghost upon the Baptized and the Imposition of the Apostolical bands whereof Tostatus speak's And saith though many others might work Tostat q. 10. citat p. 164 E. Luc. 10. Miracles in raysing the dead and curing diseases which Power our Lord gave the Seventy two Disciples who were distinct from the Apostles● yet to give Visibly the Holy Ghost by Imposition of bands was à Priviledge granted the Apostles only whereby Christ shewed them singularly favovred above all others Reflect Reader once more on the Dr's fraud and weak fallacy Was the seventy two Disciples Power in curing diseases and raysing the Dead any way limited because they could not visibly give the The Dr's fraud discovered Holy Ghost by the imposition of hands as the Apostles did Most certainly no saith Tostatus Why then should the Saints in God's Church be denyed the favour of curing diseases and raysing the dead because forsooth they have not that Apostolical Prerogative of showing visibly the Holy Ghost in forme of Fire Yet this is the
Saviours own words Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believed All this is to say in plainer Terms answerable to S. Chrysostom's true meaning Had God now after those first Apostical Signs and all other conspicuous Miracles wrought in the Church sent Twelve rude unlearned men to Preach the whole world over had he made them Ordinary Thaumaturgi or impowered them to work Miracles publickly in all Nations and to cure all manner of Infirmities as the Apostles did Had he I say done this after so great precedent Evidence manifested both Anciently and in latter Ages the minds of men overwhelmed as it were with too much Light would have lost much of the reward due to an humble and obsequious Providence has ordered that à mean be held in the Motives to Faith Faith which ever implies à Captivation of the understanding So Providence hath ordered that à Mean be held in the Motives inducing to believe not too Luminous on the one side For that would entrench upon the obscurity of Faith yet on the other side most prudently Perswasive for the gaining our Submission to what ever God hath revealed 13. Thus much I boldly averr is S. Chrysostom's chiefest Aime in this Homily if the Dr reject's the Doctrin let him once please to give weight for weight and reduce his Assertion to as sound Principles as mine opposite to his stand's upon I show first that Chrysostom own 's Miracles wrought in the Church above the force of nature not only here but in à hundred other places One only Passage because it bear's the Look of à Popish Miracle you shall have taken out of his own undoubted Writings where the Saint largely laies forth the Dignity of Priesthood When saith he the Priest invok's the Holy Ghost and Offer's that dreadful Sacrifice full of S. Chrys de Sacerdo lib. 6. c. 4. horrour and Reverence and dayly hold's the Lord of all in his hands my Demand is in vvhat Order or Dignity shall vve place him vvhat Purity and integrity of life shall vve require of him Much more followes to this purpose Then he add's At that time of the Sacrifice the vvhole Order of Celestial Spirits are present vvith the Priest in honour of him vvho lies Sacrificed upon the Altar Yet more I have heard saith S. Chrysostom à Venerable old man to vvhom God revealed many high Mysteries faithfully recounting à Vision he once had in time of Masse He saw on à sudden whole Multitudes of Angels in most resplendent Garments round about the Altar where the Priest Sacrificed bowing down their heads as Souldiers Two Popish Miracles related by S. Chrysostom are wont to do when the King is present And this saith the Saint I easily believe Another man also of most vvorthy credit told me they are S. Chrysostoms words what he had seen and heard and t' was that those who depart this life if they have worthily and with à pure Conscience received the Divine Mysteries being ready to dye are accompanied straight to Heaven by Angels that like troups of Souldiers attended their Bodies lying sick in bed 14. What saies the Dr are not these clear Miracles above all natural force done to the Honour of our Sacrificed Sauiour upon our Catholick Alters And much like such Miracles as we read of in other approved Authors However if you believe Mr Doctor S. Chrisostom denyed all Miraculous Signs which is to say the Saint Contradict's himselfe for as we have evidently Shown he hold's and defends true real Miracles through out his Writings Therefore it is most improbable that he Denies them in this place 15. The second Reason of my Assertion relies upon S. Chrysostom's own Discourse prosecuted in the Homily cited If Saith he you now seek for Signs and Miracles you have innumerable Predictions of admirable thingt done in our Age. You see the Conversions of Nations The saint proves other great Miracles foretold plainly set before your Eyes You see our Saviours Prophesy of being ever with the Church to the End of the world hitherto verifyed You se that Hell gates maugre all attempts were never yet able to Prevaile against the Church built on à firm Rock which had never been had not Christ stood with it and Powerfully opposed all Enemies Finally the Saint exhort's all to Piety and à Virtuous life O were our Duty herein faithfully complyed with we might saith he Convert the world without Miracles But who amongst us now retires to the Desart Who goes on Pilgrimage Who of our Doctors takes pains to supply the want of the poor and needy Thus S. Chrysostom 16. The last Ground of my Assertion is the main Drift of the Saints whole Discourse To assert that the Apostles singular prerogative ceased proves not à Cessation of all Miracles in the Church who never through this Homily utter's one word against Church Miracles but only Showes how and in what manner the Twelve Apostles were singularly Priviledged with two particular Prerogatives the one as I noted to teach by Divine Inspiration The other to have the Ordinary Povver of working Miracles in curing all manner of Infirmities c. And this Power we may truly Say never since granted to any set number of Persons in the Church ceases or is taken away But can any one hence inferr that because that Ordinary Gift ended with the Twelve Therefore none in the Church by Special Dispensation work 's Miracles now The Inference is lame and just like this The blessed Apostles as S. Chrysostom observes singularly Priviledged taught Truths by Divine Inspiration and by that Grace faithfully delivered our Christian Verities The Pastors and Doctors of the Church in after Ages taught not Priviledged with the like Apostolical Inspiration Ergo none of them ever since delivred one Christian Verity For Though we grant them Divine Assistance in their teaching yet because that fall's short of the Apostles Inspiration they never taught Truth I say if this way of Arguing bee most weightlesse The other is no better Viz. The Apostles singularly priviledge were made Ordinary Thaumaturgi as is already declared but many great Servants of God though not endued with that Apostolical grace yet Now and Then as it pleases Providence to Dispense his favours raise the dead restore sight to the blind c. However such Wonders must not forsooth be called Miracles because They are not Ordinary to any Person in the Church The The question proposed is whether Miracles have been wrought not how or in what manner Question therefore is whether such Miraculous works have been done in after Ages and not how and in what manner they were Wrought whether by ordinary or extraordinary favour wherein as S. Chrysostom well observes lies the Difference between the Apostolical Signs and latter Miracles Note well this Difference all along and you will find the Dr's Arguments weak and far from the Purpose 17. The Dr ' s next Quotation taken out of Chrys in 1.